Resources on the World Wide Web (Chapter 8 of NAMI's IRB Training Guide)

2)http://www.princeton.edu/~bioethic - Princeton University Bioethics Forum: an excellent site containing links to several educational resources, bioethics law sites, and web sites on specific issues in bioethics.

1)http://www.mcwirb.org - the MCWIRB Discussion Forum: a form sponsored by the Medical College of Wisconsin that promotes the exchange of ethical, regulatory, and policy concerns of human subjects research.

2)http://www.aamc.org/research/primr/start.htm - the homepage for Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R): a national organization dedicated to providing a multidisciplinary forum for addressing biomedical and bioethical issues.

3)http://www.umn.edu/subjects/humans.htm - University of Minnesota Research Subjects' Protection Programs: contains the 1. Protecting Human Subjects Guide and 2. Multiple Project Assurance of Compliance with DHHS Regulation for Protection of Human Research Subjects.

5)http://www.med.umich.edu/irbmed/ - the Medical School IRB of the University of Michigan: this site contains extensive links to human subjects research pages, federal regulatory policies, and key ethics source documents.

6)http://www.copernicus.com - this is an Independent IRB located in North Carolina: site contains several interesting links to industry and organizational sites.

Federal Resources

1)http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ - The National Library of Medicine: contains several search engines including PubMed, MEDLINE, and Grateful Med.

4)http://helix.nih.gov:8001/ohsr/ - Office of Human Subjects Research (OHSR): includes the Department of Health and Human Services regulations for the protection of human subjects; also contains text of Belmont Report.

5)http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/ELSI - Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research Program (ELSI) of the National Human Genome Research Institute.